During the third ODI between India and Sri Lanka, a DRS review taken by Suryakumar Yadav resulted in a comedy of errors that left Twitter users reeling. The batsman was initially given out by Kumar Dharmasena but was reversed after a long review.
Team India won the toss in the final ODI and chose to bat first. They were off to a brisk start before Shikhar Dhawan edged one to the keeper in the third over. A partnership followed between debutant Sanju Samson and Prithvi Shaw which saw India cross the 100-run mark. While being just one run short of his fifty, Shaw was adjudged LBW and had to walk back.
Samson followed suit soon and left India in a spot of bother at 118/3. In-form batsman Suryakumar Yadav walked out and looked at his fluent best once again. He scored at a quick rate before a hilarious incident occurred. Suryakumar tried to sweep a full delivery but missed. Umpire Kumar Dharmasena gave him LBW, which was reviewed by the Mumbaikar.
The third-umpire moved on to ball-tracking after concluding that there was no inside edge. There was an extremely long delay with it, however, for reasons unknown. After a while, ball-tracking came in and the impact was determined to be outside off (and 2.5m ahead of the stumps). The third umpire, however, went on to show the stumps hitting which sparked wild celebrations in the Sri Lankan camp.
He then changed his mind and decided that it was not out since there was a green light during the review. Dharmasena was then asked to change his decision which triggered hilarious reactions on social media. Twitter had a field day with Suryakumar Yadav’s DRS call.
Here are some of the reactions on Twitter:
Third umpire during that DRS review 🤦 thankfully right call was made in the end. #SLvIND #SuryakumarYadav pic.twitter.com/bPOfoTJ6NA
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) July 23, 2021
Whole Sri Lankan team did a Mushi Rahim.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) July 23, 2021
Nobody
Sri lankan players after seeing Suryakumar yadav not out : pic.twitter.com/7wnqBQajXM
— Akshaj Soni (@akshaj_soni_) July 23, 2021
This is #SuryakumarYadav reaction to the LBW review #SLvsIND pic.twitter.com/oJD23MCl5c
— Sagar (@karursagar) July 23, 2021
SL players started celebrating, right after the ball tracking of Suryakumar Yadav's dismissal. They didn't even know Impact Outside of is declared as not out 😂😂😂.
Surprisingly Suryakumar Yadav also started walking 😂😂.
PS: SL DRS system sucks.
— Mohit Kamat (@ooo_mohito) July 23, 2021
Literally, what just happened😪
First I was rejoiced seeing impact outside off, but then when they were checking if hitting wickets or not I got a little confused.. But then #SL started celebrating and #SuryakumarYadav started walking back I was totally confused..#INDvSL #INDvsSL— Pariiii (@Pari__0201) July 23, 2021
Too delayed preview… I felt the spin was fabricated 🤣🤣🤣,
Funny thing was impact outside and Sri Lanka team celebrated the wicket 😂#SLvsIND #SuryakumarYadav— Zeeshan (@zash_k) July 23, 2021
Sri lankan players reaction after that ball tracking result beneficial to Suryakumar Yadav#INDvSL #Cricket pic.twitter.com/biZxDwQ9BU
— Gokul (@go_knack16) July 23, 2021